The following reply was made to PR pkg/48194; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: agc%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
Pierre Pronchery <khorben%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: PR/48194 CVS commit: pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/files/lib
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 18:41:17 +0200
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 02:30:01PM +0000, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> now that I have pushed the change to both pkgsrc and src, I would like
> to ask about version handling and the PKGTOOLS_REQD variable. I believe
> the "latest version required for correct pkgsrc operation" includes this
> patch, since it was impossible so far to even simply extract signed
> packages reliably.
Given that noone has used signed binary as evident by the lack of bug
reports, I object to the bump at this point in time.
Joerg